SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2025, 4:00PM
St. Raphael Catholic Church, BAY VILLAGE

Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program returns! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights include “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo.” Children’s voices shine in this haunting and joyous celebration of the Christ child.

Rebecca Myers, Andréa Walker, Molly Netter,sopranos
Doug Dodson,countertenor
Michael Jones, Matthew Newhouse,tenors
Matthew Dexter,bass
……………………………………………..
with Apollo’s Singers
and members of Apollo’s Musettes (Treble Youth Choir)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2025, 7:00PM
First Baptist Church, SHAKER HEIGHTS

Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program returns! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights include “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo.” Children’s voices shine in this haunting and joyous celebration of the Christ child.

Rebecca Myers, Andréa Walker, Molly Netter,sopranos
Doug Dodson,countertenor
Michael Jones, Matthew Newhouse,tenors
Matthew Dexter,bass
……………………………………………..
with Apollo’s Singers
and members of Apollo’s Musettes (Treble Youth Choir)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2025, 7:00PM
Trinity Cathedral, CLEVELAND

Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program returns! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights include “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo.” Children’s voices shine in this haunting and joyous celebration of the Christ child.

Rebecca Myers, Andréa Walker, Molly Netter,sopranos
Doug Dodson,countertenor
Michael Jones, Matthew Newhouse,tenors
Matthew Dexter,bass
……………………………………………..
with Apollo’s Singers
and members of Apollo’s Musettes (Treble Youth Choir)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2025, 7:00PM
Trinity Cathedral, CLEVELAND

Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program returns! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights include “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo.” Children’s voices shine in this haunting and joyous celebration of the Christ child.

Rebecca Myers, Andréa Walker, Molly Netter,sopranos
Doug Dodson,countertenor
Michael Jones, Matthew Newhouse,tenors
Matthew Dexter,bass
……………………………………………..
with Apollo’s Singers
and members of Apollo’s Musettes (Treble Youth Choir)

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025, 7:00PM
Saints Faith, Hope, & Charity Church, WINNETKA

Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program comes to Chicago! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights include “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo.” Children’s voices shine in this haunting and joyous celebration of the Christ child.

Rebecca Myers, Andréa Walker, Molly Netter,sopranos
Doug Dodson,countertenor
Michael Jones, Matthew Newhouse,tenors
Matthew Dexter,bass
……………………………………………..
with Apollo’s Singers
and members of Apollo’s Musettes (Treble Youth Choir)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2025, 3:00PM
Church of the Holy Family, DOWNTOWN CHICAGO

Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program comes to Chicago! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights include “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo.” Children’s voices shine in this haunting and joyous celebration of the Christ child.

Rebecca Myers, Andréa Walker, Molly Netter,sopranos
Doug Dodson,countertenor
Michael Jones, Matthew Newhouse,tenors
Matthew Dexter,bass
……………………………………………..
with Apollo’s Singers
and members of Apollo’s Musettes (Treble Youth Choir)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025, 7:00PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, AKRON

Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program returns! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights include “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo.” Children’s voices shine in this haunting and joyous celebration of the Christ child.

Rebecca Myers, Andréa Walker, Molly Netter,sopranos
Doug Dodson,countertenor
Michael Jones, Matthew Newhouse,tenors
Matthew Dexter,bass
……………………………………………..
with Apollo’s Singers
and members of Apollo’s Musettes (Treble Youth Choir)

Sunday, December 7, 2025, 4:00 p.m.                    
First United Methodist Church
2111 Camino del Rio S, San Diego, CA 92108

Handel’s great oratorio Messiah springs to life by way of the fruitful collaboration of Charles Jennens’ carefully conceived libretto and Handel’s supreme skill as a composer  of the theatre. BCSD’s performance of Messiah, delivered by a dynamic cast in the manner of Handel’s dramatic operas, has become one of its crown jewels.

Estelí Gomez, soprano  
Jay Carter, countertenor  
Jacob Perry, Michael Jones, tenors  
Jonathan Woody, bass  

Saturday, December 6, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Faye Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037

Handel’s great oratorio Messiah springs to life by way of the fruitful collaboration of Charles Jennens’ carefully conceived libretto and Handel’s supreme skill as a composer  of the theatre. BCSD’s performance of Messiah, delivered by a dynamic cast in the manner of Handel’s dramatic operas, has become one of its crown jewels.

Estelí Gomez, soprano  
Jay Carter, countertenor  
Jacob Perry, Michael Jones, tenors  
Jonathan Woody, bass  

Friday, December 5, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
The Parish of St. Matthew
1031 Bienveneda Ave, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Handel’s great oratorio Messiah springs to life by way of the fruitful collaboration of Charles Jennens’ carefully conceived libretto and Handel’s supreme skill as a composer  of the theatre. BCSD’s performance of Messiah, delivered by a dynamic cast in the manner of Handel’s dramatic operas, has become one of its crown jewels.

Estelí Gomez, soprano  
Jay Carter, countertenor  
Jacob Perry, Michael Jones, tenors  
Jonathan Woody, bass  

All Saints’ Episcopal Church
504 N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

For its second season concert, Tesserae explores the flowering of the madrigal in Ferrara at the end of the sixteenth century. Under the patronage of Duke Alfonso II, the Estense court became one of the musical gemstones of late Renaissance Europe. Its institutions included the famed concerto delle donne, the elite ensemble of female professional singers who performed at the renowned musica secreta (the court’s private music). In addition to court composers such as Luzzasco Luzzaschi (Frescobaldi’s teacher), many of the most highly-esteemed composers of the period—from Willaert to Gesualdo—had strong ties to the court. This program displays the rich musical tapestry of the city through the madrigal, accompanied by instrumental music that shows a flair for the experimental and the avant-garde.

Carnegie Hall Presents
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Raphaël Pichon

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

From its mysterious opening movement to its triumphant “Ode to Joy,” Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony changed the course of music and remains one of its most recognizable landmarks. Tonight, the storied Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs the masterwork with choir and soloists under conductor Raphaël Pichon, who recently led a sold-out performance in Boston’s Symphony Hall, revealing that “the Ninth can still be a source of evergreen freshness and vitality” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). Boston Classical Review agreed: “Pichon finds fresh illumination in Beethoven’s Ninth … it thundered.” The concert also features the Carnegie Hall premiere of selections from Beethoven’s incidental music for a never-performed play: Leonore Prohaska. 

Orchestra of St. Luke's
Raphaël Pichon, Conductor
The Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, Director

Program to include:
BEETHOVEN Selections from Leonore Prohaska
SILCHER "Persischer Nachtgesang" (after Allegretto from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

St. Ignatius Loyola Church
980 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10028

Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola: Works by Palestrina, Parker, and Bach

We begin the season celebrating the momentous birthdays of two choral giants: Alice Parker (1925-2023) and G. P. da Palestrina (1525-1594). In addition to works by these luminaries, we offer two sublime motets by J. S. Bach, "Jesu, meine Freude" and "Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf."

Reception to follow in Wallace Hall.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Excerpts from "Missa O Magnum mysterium”
Johann Sebastian Bach | Jesu, meine Freude
Johann Sebastian Bach | Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
Alice Parker | Beauty and Blessing
Alice Parker | The Composer of the World
Alice Parker | Hark! I hear the harps eternal

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Kent Tritle, conductor

Experience music like never before as Musica Sacra opens the 2025-26 season with “SurRound” at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

In this candlelit, immersive performance led by Music Director Kent Tritle, singers move in, among, and around the audience, creating a breathtaking wall of sound that envelops you from every direction.

The evening features Thomas Tallis’ Renaissance masterpiece Spem in Alium, written for 40 solo voices and performed in both its original Latin and newly edited English versions, alongside Alessandro Striggio’s equally stunning 40-voice work Ecce Beatam Lucem. The program also includes stunning works spanning the entirety of the choral canon, from Gregorian Chant all the way to contemporary voices including Arvo Pärt and Caroline Shaw.

THOMAS TALLIS  Sing and Glorify (for 40 solo voices, ed. K. Tritle)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS  Mass for Double Choir: Kyrie          
ARVO PÄRT  Da pacem Domine
FRANK MARTIN  Mass for Double Choir: Agnus Dei
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO  Ecce Beatam Lucem (for 40 solo voices)
NANCY WERTSCH  Eternae Deus
VALENTIN SILVESTROV  Prayer for Ukraine
CAROLINE SHAW  and the swallow
TRADITIONAL  “I’m gonna sing ‘til the spirit” (arr. Moses Hogan)
THOMAS TALLIS  Spem in Alium (for 40 solo voices)
JEAN RITCHIE  “Now is the cool of the day”

St. Mary's Church
5 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT 06511

Join Yale Consort for a service of Vespers, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation.

Free and open to the public.

This service features music of Guerrero, Vivanco, Bruckner.

Due to the off-campus nature of Yale Consort events, they will not be livestreamed. We invite you to join us in person as you are able.

Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.

Trinity Church on the Green
230 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511

Join Yale Consort for a service of Choral Evensong, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation. Through hymns, psalms, canticles, and reflections, the centuries-old tradition of Choral Evensong invites us to come together in stillness and prayer.

Free and open to the public.

This service features music of Dering, Stanford, Harris.

Due to the off-campus nature of Yale Consort events, they will not be livestreamed. We invite you to join us in person as you are able.

Christ Church
84 Broadway New Haven, CT 06511

Join Yale Consort for a service of Choral Evensong, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation. Through hymns, psalms, canticles, and reflections, the centuries-old tradition of Choral Evensong invites us to come together in stillness and prayer.

Free and open to the public.

This service features music of Tallis, Leighton and Morley.

Due to the off-campus nature of Yale Consort events, they will not be livestreamed. We invite you to join us in person as you are able.

CHORAL GRAND OPENING:
MOZART & BACH

Thursday, October 23, 2025 @ 7:30PM
Church of the Ascension
36 Fifth Avenue at 10th St.
New York, NY 10011

Voices of Ascension opens its 36th season with a concert of soaring virtuosity and spiritual grandeur. Soprano Liv Redpath joins the Voices of Ascension Chorus and Orchestra under the direction of Artistic Director Dennis Keene for a transcendent pairing of choral masterworks: Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and J. S. Bach’s Magnificat in D Major.

Filled with drama, beauty, and exquisite music, this concert launches the season with a powerful celebration of choral artistry, all within the luminous acoustic of the Church of the Ascension.

This performance is a gift from The Secular Society in memory of Liz Norman, who was Voices’ Executive Director for 14 years, and whose leadership helped shape the organization’s artistic legacy.

Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall
$25-$70, Students $5

Join OBF and Eugene Ballet for a thrilling performance of one of classical music’s most electrifying works. From the instantly recognizable opening chorus, “O Fortuna,” to its evocative tales of love, nature, and fate, Orff’s masterpiece delivers raw emotion and dazzling energy. An unforgettable tribute to Eugene Ballet artistic director Toni Pimble. The concert opens with violinist Rahel Rilling—daughter of OBF co-founder Helmuth Rilling—soloing with OBF violinists Sarah Kwak and Suzanne Leon on Bach’s Concerto for Three Violins.

J.S. Bach    Concerto for Three Violins
Orff          Carmina Burana
 
OBF Chorus
Resonance Ensemble
UO Chamber Choir
Pacific Youth Choir
OBF Modern Orchestra
Eugene Ballet
Rahel Rilling, Sarah Kwak, and Suzanne Leon, violins
Celena Shafer, soprano
Andrew Haji, tenor
Elliot Madore, baritone
Ken-David Masur, conductor

Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall
$25-$70, Students $5

Explore the complicated relationship between peace and conflict. Internationally renowned pianist Awadagin Pratt joins the OBF Chorus and Modern Orchestra for a thrilling and haunting performance of Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds, as well the Vaughan Williams “Dona nobis pacem,” and music from J.S. Bach. Conducted by OBF artistic partner, Craig Hella Johnson.

Pärt                       Credo
J.S. Bach                 Largo from Concerto No. 5 in F Minor
Montgomery            Rounds
Barber                    Adagio for Strings/Agnus Dei
Vaughan Williams    Dona nobis pacem

OBF Chorus 
UO Chamber Choir
OBF Modern Orchestra
Awadagin Pratt, piano
Celena Shafer, soprano
Elliot Madore, baritone
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

Beall Concert Hall
961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR
$20-$60, Students $5

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is one of the 19th century’s most beloved choral masterpieces. Unlike traditional requiems, it emphasizes peace and solace over fear and judgment. The concert opens with the second annual installment of the OBF “New Transcriptions” Project, featuring composer Oswald Huỳnh, and a signature performance of Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs by “charismatic star” (The Boston Globe) mezzo-soprano, Fleur Barron.

J.S. Bach/Huỳnh    New Bach Transcription
Berio            Folk Songs
Fauré            Requiem
 
OBF Chorus
OBF Modern Orchestra
Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Celena Shafer, soprano
Elliot Madore, baritone
Stephanie Childress, conductor

Mount Pisgah Arboretum, White Oak Pavilion
34901 Frank Parrish Rd, Eugene, OR 97405
$30 GA, Students $5

An outdoor, sunset concert to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the “Prince of Music,” whose works defined the golden age of Renaissance polyphony. The evening also features a transformative reimagining of J.S. Bach’s Chaconne and a world premiere new work by award-winning west coast composer, Derrick Skye. Interwoven throughout the program are readings inspired by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th-century Mexican poet and nun. Conducted by OBF artistic partner, Craig Hella Johnson.

OBF Chorus
Shunske Sato, violin
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall
$25-$70, Students $5

On October 6, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, and left to die, in what became an infamous act of brutality, and one of America’s most notorious anti-gay hate crimes. Shepard’s murder served as a catalyst for legislation that expanded the definition of a hate crime to include sexual orientation. The Grammy-nominated oratorio, composed and conducted by OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson, is an evocative and compassionate musical response to the murder of Matthew Shepard.

OBF Chorus
OBF Modern Orchestra
Camilla Tassi, projection designer
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

Qubit: Chant

June 15, 2025  8PM
Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY
$15/10

Laure Hiendl - Ray Ray of Light (2022) excerpts
Celeste Oram - Onomastic Gymnastics (2019)

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012

The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed. Co-curated by superstar countertenor Reginald Mobley and CQ cofounders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber, this concert asks: "whose histories inform the way we play and perceive Baroque music, and what would it mean to center performers’ voices and stories?" Featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw, the program celebrates queer perspectives that have shaped the early-music revival and influenced generations of boundary-breaking artists.

UU Urban Ministry (formerly First Church Roxbury)
10 Putnam Street, Boston, MA, 02119

The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed. Co-curated by superstar countertenor Reginald Mobley and CQ cofounders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber, this concert asks: "whose histories inform the way we play and perceive Baroque music, and what would it mean to center performers’ voices and stories?" Featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw, the program celebrates queer perspectives that have shaped the early-music revival and influenced generations of boundary-breaking artists.

Opera Workshop: Macabéa – an opera in 13 scenes
with Talea Ensemble
composer Suzanne Farrin
libretto by Sergio Chejfec
based on The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Texts in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 2 PM
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Clarion Choir & Orchestra
J.S. Bach St. John Passion

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 8:00–10:45pm
Park Avenue Christian Church
1010 Park Ave, New York, NY 10028

Big Roar
Featuring: Chor Leoni, The Leonids, MYVoice, PRÉLUDE, and artists of the Emerging Choral Artist Program (ECAP)

Saturday, May 3, 2025 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Chan Centre UBC
6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada